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Re: How to run the fine city of Detroit!

Ahh.....Detroit.....it's just like Chicago, but without the jobs.

Detroit is the prime example what happens when Democrats take over everything & there are no Republicans to keep them in check.

Corruption. Democrat political leaders lining their pockets & taking bribes. No jobs. People rely on big government to write them welfare checks, but there not enough taxpayers to support the people who aren't paying any taxes. High unemployment & desperation leads to high crime. Boarded up buildings & homeless people who live in unsanitary conditions. Not enough money to afford police because the Democrats & unions who run the city hate job creation and set high tax rates for the few people who do have jobs, until they move out of Detroit. The cycle then repeats.

Detroit used to be the model of American progress from the 1920s to 1950s. Then from the 1960s to today, sh*t hit the fan. Detroit is the only major American city with a DECLINING population.

But of course Democrats support gay marriage, so who cares about the rest.

Re: How to run the fine city of Detroit!

Detroit is the prime example what happens when Democrats take over everything & there are no Republicans to keep them in check.

Corruption. Democrat political leaders lining their pockets & taking bribes. No jobs. People rely on big government to write them welfare checks, but there not enough taxpayers to support the people who aren't paying any taxes. High unemployment & desperation leads to high crime. Boarded up buildings & homeless people who live in unsanitary conditions. Not enough money to afford police because the Democrats & unions who run the city hate job creation and set high tax rates for the few people who do have jobs, until they move out of Detroit. The cycle then repeats.

Detroit used to be the model of American progress from the 1920s to 1950s. Then from the 1960s to today, sh*t hit the fan. Detroit is the only major American city with a DECLINING population.

But of course Democrats support gay marriage, so who cares about the rest.

Such simplistic reasoning indicates that your politically driven prejudices speak more of your ignorance than the facts.

Corruption is not monopolised by the politicians of any one political party.

Industries rise and decline. Detroit's traditional industries that made the city so prosperous have declined considerably.

People move to cities, towns and states where there is employment this has always been the way of an enterprising society.

Myopic vision has a well established habit of reminding us that prejudicial understandings are driven by ignorance masquerading as common sense.

Re: How to run the fine city of Detroit!

Off-topic....

Originally Posted by JayQueer

Detroit is the prime example what happens when Democrats take over everything & there are no Republicans to keep them in check.blue-collar manufacturing industries that provided jobs and security for generations of workers and their families are shipped overseas and the workforce laid off, just because Republicans and ultra-capitalists HATE paying 'low-skill' industry workers a decent wage, just as much as they HATE the fact that they DARE have such a thing as a union or in fact ANY rights at all.

Fixed that for you.

P.S....

Even more off-topic....

What was the name of that JUBber from Detroit who posted a thread about how he and his friend and this other guy were driving around all over the place on the other guy's demands but then were pulled over by the cops, all the while with him taking pics of stuff like some minor damage to his car and the other guy's jacket back in his apartment?

I loved that thread! And I really liked that JUBber! I wish he'd post more threads on here about his adventures!

P.P.S....

Yet even more off-topic....

The Detroit tourism board should REALLY use the two segments of Eminem's vid at the beginning and end. Never mind about the actual song.

They're really evocative and well-shot segments and always make me feel like wanting to visit the place.

Re: How to run the fine city of Detroit!

Originally Posted by ChickenGuy

What was the name of that JUBber from Detroit who posted a thread about how he and his friend and this other guy were driving around all over the place on the other guy's demands but then were pulled over by the cops, all the while with him taking pics of stuff like some minor damage to his car and the other guy's jacket back in his apartment?

They're really evocative and well-shot segments and always make me feel like wanting to visit the place.

Sultan, perhaps? I don't know. If you can remember any "unusual" words he may have used in it (such as rickshaw, complexion, suffragette, nexus, philodendron, coaxial, Belarus), a simple Forum search can probably get you directly to that thread, even if it was close to three years ago. I can't remember many JUBbers who have mentioned being from Detroit, and I think randomdude (whose avatar was an upside-down George Bush) was gone LONG before you came into the room.

Detroit actually has some magnificent architecture - while, unfortunately, other such architecture which Detroit also had, as well, has been lost to neglect or even razed. My favorite architecture INSIDE of a building, there, is in the Guardian Building downtown. Where dwellings haven't been demolished, there are some wonderful, substantial, and well-built homes in some of the old-school neighborhoods. The Mexican neighborhood (which is actually one of the better-off neighborhoods in the city) comes to mind quickly.

"Some people without brains do an awful lot of talking." -The Scarecrow, WIZARD OF OZ, 1939Betsy DeVos, Secretary of Education, to under-performing schools: DROP DEAD.Make, for a man, a fire - and he'll be warm for a few hours. Set a man afire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.Satire is meant to ridicule power. If you are laughing at people who are hurting, it's not satire, it's bullying. - Terry Pratchett